Friends-&-Family @ the-roadhouse 02.11.02
Roadhouse regulars are in for a rare treat tonight: J-Walk Sound System perform live!! Check out their 'French Letter/The Wasp' 12" (Pleasure 2000) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6GjZQwVFQ&feature=related). J-Walk are the studio-crafted musical collaborations of Martin Brew (Fat City Records) & Martin Desai (Codebreaker Studios) & tonight's occasion is -'A Night On The Rocks'- the first live showcase of their debut LP anywhere
On hand to turn their studio-based songs into solid live performances are guest singers Sara Hill ('Heavens Above') & Pete Simpson ('Another Lover'); and ('Scarlet Menace' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaF67KueJDY&feature=related) Grand Central chanteuse Veba. On hand also, to pick up the baton once their live show is finished, F&F resident Christian Wood & omnipresent man-on-the-mic Kwasi Asante
From the Northern Soul tinged LP opener 'Tearaway' to classic Northern Quarter anthem 'Soul Vibration' J-Walk continue to prove why the very best underground Manchester music still keeps sweeping around derelict satanic mills & seeping out of these dark cellars, newly refurbished studio spaces & hot sticky basement clubs
Though it trailed away many hours ago the truly magnificent sounds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbpDDL36z4w) of 'Soul Vibration' still echo in my ears, all the journey home through a typically Mancunian rain... then for days afterwards... (and in the many months that followed...)
On hand to turn their studio-based songs into solid live performances are guest singers Sara Hill ('Heavens Above') & Pete Simpson ('Another Lover'); and ('Scarlet Menace' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaF67KueJDY&feature=related) Grand Central chanteuse Veba. On hand also, to pick up the baton once their live show is finished, F&F resident Christian Wood & omnipresent man-on-the-mic Kwasi Asante
From the Northern Soul tinged LP opener 'Tearaway' to classic Northern Quarter anthem 'Soul Vibration' J-Walk continue to prove why the very best underground Manchester music still keeps sweeping around derelict satanic mills & seeping out of these dark cellars, newly refurbished studio spaces & hot sticky basement clubs
Though it trailed away many hours ago the truly magnificent sounds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbpDDL36z4w) of 'Soul Vibration' still echo in my ears, all the journey home through a typically Mancunian rain... then for days afterwards... (and in the many months that followed...)
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